you elect for an IDE to USB or SATA to USB equipment, the two interior the variety of a standaline unit, or a case which you place contained in thecontinual. it is going to incorporate a capability grant. A committed portable USB opticalcontinual could choose for USB basically. I definitely have made a USB DVD reader author myself, using the case from an previous parallel port CD reader author, the board and PSU from a USB-IDE HDD case, and an IDE DVD reader/author, and it incredibly works only advantageous.

if your sata port has the power connections as well then it will work as long as you get a sata dvd drive. if not just get an external usb dvd drive, they have their own power supply that comes with them

if u have sata port then yes...why not buy a usb dvd writer instead

no it wont as 5.25 inch desktop drives need auxillary power, instead get an "external usb dvd writer", it just needs 2 usb ports and will work just as good as the internal one

good luck

Replace the dvd drive on the laptop they are ten a penny on Ebay and usually quite simple to install, more often than not theres only one screw underneath holding them in and they just pull out ,try googling for replacing dvd drive on your model or look on you tube

http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=laptop...

if you got the drivers. then yes